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Superlatives

Who is the cleverest Spanish student in your class (aside from you!)? Is that person also the nicest? How about the youngest? How does these students compare to others with respect to height? In both English and in Spanish we can use superlatives to talk about ‘the best apple pie,’ ‘the fastest bicycle,’ or how someone excels at something.

Using adjectives to indicate superiority

Archetypal sentences

 

 

 

 

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